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Is iuscribed to the Empress of the French,
BY A LADY,
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LV THE HUMBLE HOPE THAT, WITH GOD'S BLESSING, IT MAY
BE THE MEANS OF INDUCING THE
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POPE AND THE BISHOPS
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WHO COMPOSE THE
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL,
To dismiss from their minds all idea of 'passing the
Dogma of Infallibility.
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May it please your Holiness,
You have called together your Bishops to consult
with them on holy things, and a great deal of time
has passed in discussing your infallibility, without
your having arrived at any satisfactory conclusion.
Now, I beseech you, take God's Holy Word and see
what it says about man's past, present and future
state. Let us carry back our minds to that time when
God, having prepared this beautiful world, one lovely
garden containing all that the eye delights to behold,
created and placed in it a perfect man, pure and holy,
a little lower than the angels, who received one com-
mand from God Himself, not to eat the fruit of one
tree in the garden. To make him completely happy.
Eve was given to be his comforter and companion.
The Bible does not say that God talked with Eve,
but it does say that she knew the command ; the
serpent must have known it also. Whether the
privilege of seeing, walking and talking with God was
enjoyed by Adam alone, we cannot say ; or, whether
man was made by God to fill the place of those angels
" which kept not their first estate," but left their own
habitation, we can only conjecture.
Peter and Jude inform us that angels were cast out
of heaven, and Matthew 25, 4i, says that hell was
prepared for them ; so that it was with very bitter
feelings that they saw man in such a glorious world.
The serpent is said to have been subtld, which means
easily penetrated, so the Devil hid himself in the
serpent, and tempted Eve to disobey God, under the
plea of acquiring knowledge. Then she persuaded
Adam. The Devil thus using three instruments, the
serpent, Eve and Adarn, who he filled with unbelief,
pride and disobedience, the very arts he uses with
all mankind ; it brought three curses on the serpent,
mankind and the earth, which was God's work of the
3rd, 5th and 6th days, which three figures, by placing
man before beast, make ^6^y the exact number of days
in the year, so that they, perhaps, are under the curse.
The sun, moon, stars, sky and heaven, still retain
their original beauty, though clouds sometimes hide
them from our gaze. But God loved man so much
that while he passed the sentence of death on his
body he promised a Saviour for his soul, who would
be an antidote, as it were, which would prevent the
poison from affecting his everlasting state, provided
man tried to please God, washed away his sins in the
blood of Christ, and partook of the food which Christ
commanded for the strengthening and refreshing of
his soul ; but even this will not make him infallible.
For David pifays, in the 1 9th Psalm, to be made to
understand his errors, to be cleansed from his secret
sins, and to be kept back from presumptuous sins.
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The clouds, in different ways, often hide from our
eyes the glory and beauty of the sun ; flying clouds
may represent our errors, a haze may signify our
secret sins, and the heavy storm our presumptuous
sins ; but to be left without the sun, as they were at
the time of the flood, is but a faint idea of perpetual
banishment from the presence of God. This will be
everlasting misery. There are many kinds of serpents,
and they are divided into two classes, those who crush
their victims to death and those who poison them.
Now, supposing that one of each of these kinds of
serpents were to appear in your Council, crushing and
poisoning your bishops, would your swallowing an
antidote save their lives. Alas ! no ! You could
neither save them nor yourself from the serpent's
deadly sting, nor have you the power to destroy the
sinful desires of the world, the flesh and the Devil,
with which every human being is possessed. Nothing
but the grace of God can do this. Christ alone can
bruise the serpent's head. All that man can do with
the help of God's Holy Spirit, is to '--raise his heel.
St. John warns us of this. In his i'Kst Epistle he
addresses us ai'^ little children, 3,7, and shows us that,
by being righteous alone can we bruise the serpent's
heel. The Son of God was manifested to destroy the
works of the Devil, but he only acts when we do our
part ; for it does not say that Christ will bruise his
head unless we bruise his heel ; here is faith and
works.
But if the works of the patriarchs, who had a living
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faith, was imperfect, how can any pope or prelate in
these days be infallible ? For the first revelation after
the fall Christ appeared to man as an angel, and talked
with him, and this was not enough to prevent the
world from growing gradually more and more wicked.
In proof of this assertion, look at the world at the time
of the flood. To rest on the seventh day seems to
have been the principal command, and, at that time
there was but one righteous man found on the earth,
who was Noah, who God saved with his family in an
arky a word of three letters, which was really the first
Church of God on earth. Noah's first act after the
flood was to build an altar and ofier a sacrifice to God,
which showed his faith in a coming Saviour, for which
faith he was saved when all the world was drowned ;
but, though God accepted the ofl'ering, he must have
seen some imperfection in it, for God said, " I will not
curse the ground any more, for the imagination of
man's heart is only evil continually.'* And though
he had been so wonderfully preserved, see how soon
we read of his being drunken, and he was not infal-
lible enough to keep his three sons in the paths of
virtue and holiness, for he was obliged to curse his
son Ham for his wickedness ; and the next account
we have of the world is that pride raged so that man
thought he could raise a tower that would reach to
heaven, but God frustrated their design by confound-
ing their language, and thus people were scattered
over the earth. With a variety of language sprung
up, most likely, a variety of false worship. For
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Abraham was commanded by God himself to remove
from the place in which he was living and he would
b!ess him. How sweetly Abraham obeys, old as he
was. Seventy-five years of his life he had lived there.
He must have had many friends and strong induce-
ments to remain and disobey God ; but we hear of no
murmur ; still he was not infallible. In ofTering up
his son he showed a perfect faith and trust in God's
promise of a Messiah, but the poison of the serpent
was in his veins, and with him as with all mankind,
except Christ, the Devil had his hours of triumph.
But this is his kingdom, for we know that he is the
God of this world, therefore he uses all his arts to
allure us, and as long as we live on this earth we must
either put on the whole armour of God and fight a
daily battle with Satan, or our feet will slide into some
bye-path, and we will be overwhelmed by the pomps
and vanities of the world. Thus, up to Noah's time,
there was no infallible person found on this earth.
Noah built, as it were in a figure, the first church.
Abraham, in his ofi*ering his son, showed us the kind
of faith that God requires of us, which must be a
willingness to give up the dearest Uol of our hearts.
Isaac's purity and willingness to be ofl!ered a perfect
type of Christ's love to man. God could have saved
Noah without making him build an ark, but God's
plan is to make man shew his faith by his works. In
building the ark Noah worked out his faith. God
might, if He had chosen, have banished sin from this
world by Christ's death ; but, instead, he has left
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ordinances and commands to be observed, and a church
or ark to carry us through the waters of strife, and to
teach us how to escape the snares and nets which the
Devil has set to catch us in. Let us look, then, to see
that our ark shall be 450 feet long, 75 broad and 45
high, or, in other words, that it shall be built as near
as possible on the foundation of the Aposties. Jesus
Christ himself, " like the figure 5 in the ark," being
the chief " corner stone." Acts 4, 11, 12.
This is the stone which was set at naught of you
builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is
none other name under heaven given among men
whereby we must be saved — for Christ alone is infal-
lible. If we next take Isaac, we see in the strife and
struggling between his sons that he was not infallible,
and if Esau, selling his birthright to Jacob, is a type
of the Jews rejecting Christ and the call of the Gen-
tiles, the latter part of the blessing, that he shall break
the yoke of his neck, will be fulfilled as soon as they
acknowledge Christ ; for the Jews may be the descend-
ants of Esau and the Christians of Jacob, and the elder
in this case have really served the younger. And we
have really seen the Scriptures literally fulfilled with-
out perceiving it. We next have the beautiful character
of Joseph presented to us. Isaac appears to have been
the type of the divine nature of Christ, but Joseph
the type of his human nature. See how he is betrayed
by his brethren, and sold ; see how the Devil tempted
.him, and see how, guided by God's Holy Spirit, he
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overcame every temptation, and how beautifully the
first revelation of God to man closes with his death.
In all the Bible these are the only two character* who
did not fail themselves in fulfilling the moral law, but
they were not infallible ; for see how their descendants
rebelled against their Maker. So loving, good and
holy is God, that He now gave man a written law,
written with His own finger on two tables of stone ;
a true picture of the way the Holy Spirit tries to
write on our stony hearts, and to transmit these com-
mandments to us — God raised up Moses, a man who
God led himself for forty years through many great
trials to subdue his angry spirit, and to prepare him
for the work which God gave him to do. And now,
having found nothing infallible under the first reve-
lation, let us glance at the second, one which was a
written revelation, and was given by God himself to
Moses, who, after being brought up in the king's
palace, is reduced to the occupation of keeping sheep,
where he learnt, no doubt, patience and contentment ;
and the first thing that God tells him is that he is the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This seems to
have been intended for an assurance to Moses that
they still existed in some unseen place, for had they
altogether passed out of existence God would have
said, " I was." Then the bush appearing to be burn-
ing without fire to kindle it, was an emblem of the
devices which Satan would use to destroy the Church
of God ; but, kept by God's especial care and purified
by God's Holy Spirit, it will, like the ark, when it
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came through the waters of the flood, cast out all the
unclean animals which were in it, which animals may,
perhaps, be a type of all the different religions and
sects which seem, as it were, to have divided the law
of Moses between them, to have made four parts of
Christ's garments and broken the wedding ring with
which Christ had encircled his Church. But the Holy
Spirit is coming to open the eyes of the world, and
he will bind with faith,, hope and charity, the Church
in which raging fires have burnt, but which have not
destroyed the garments which are prepared for the
Bride when she is reunited to her Spouse. Before God
gave Moses His written law He talked with him, but,
even while God is talking with him he shrinks from
the work which was his privilege to perform, forgetting
that God would help him, with his Holy Spirit, to do
all the work that He gave him to do, provided that he
prayed for that help ; so God assures him of this help,
for he said to Him, " Certainly I will be with thee."
God chose him as His servant because he had faith in
a coming Saviour, and then teaches him that the Holy
Spirit would lead him, as he led our Saviour to the
wilderness, to endure temptation for us and conquer
sin. So the Holy Spirit leads every baptized Chris-
tian to try and overcome the sinful desires of the flesh,
and, instead, to plant the Christian graces, which St.
Paul tells us, are the fruits of the Spirit.
Pharaoh's heart is only a true picture of a man's
heart at any time when under the dominion of the
Evil Spirit. The ten plagues being one for each com-
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mandment that he breaks, and when, by degrees, he
thinks nothing of breaking all, preparing himself for
endless misery. The first plague, the turning the
river Nile into blood, was, there was no doubt,
intended to show the Egyptians and Israelites that
man must worship the one Holy and true God. The
plagues of frogs, lice, flies and beasts, may be a picture
of our four religions in the sight of God, when man
places his trust in them, instead of being led by God's
Holy Spirit to practice the graces which he loves.
The plague of boils and blains, of hail, of locusts and
thick darkness, a picture of the spiritual state of each
of these religions, bound with the sins with which the
Devil blinds men's eyes, and the state of corruption
which sin has brought our bodies to. Then the last
plague teaches us that when we have humbled our-
selves to bee to what a condition sin has brought us
and how soiled and stained our souls are, that there is
one perfect sacrifice provided, which alone can wash
and purify and fit us to see God ; but, common sense
will tell us that, unless we are led through this world
or wilderness by God's Holy Spirit, we will be fit only
to be drowned like the Egyptians in 4he Red Sea, and
lost with the wicked from the presence of God.
The last plague with which God visited Pharoah was
death, and even this heavy calamity did not teach
Pharoah to humble himself before God. And yet,
why so surprised at this, we see coffins and hearses
every day, taking to their last home some pilgrims,
and yet how little do we think of it as a lesson which
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ought to teach us " to do justly, to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with our God." 6 Micah, 8. But the
great lesson which was foreshadowed by this plague
was the death of Christ. God required an atonement
for the sins of men, and the Jews were required to
offer a lamb from that day till Christ suffered the
shameful death of the cross, and offered himself a
sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. . The com-
mand to strike the two side-posts and the upper door-
post, is, to my mind, a shadow of the cross, a." all
events, there were to be the three marks of blood on
every Israelite's door ; and they were never to fail to
keep the Passover as long as they lived. Since Christ's
resurrection our Easter has taken its place, and Chris-
tians should, with love sincere and holy, pray that
God's Holy Spirit would lead them to approach the
Lord's table at this sacred time and spiritually to par-
take of Christ's body and blood, which alone can take
the serpent's poison out of our veins. " For there is
one God and one Mediator between God and man, the
Man Christ Jesus." The Jews were ordered to keep
the lamb four days. Now these four days may be a
type of the four religions, Jew, Christian, Mahom-
medan and Brahmin, which, divided as they are now,
are keeping us from knowing Christ ; but when they
unite and form that one tree which man lost when
Adam fell, will produce nothing but good fruit, for
there will then be no envy, no malice, no striving who
will be the greatest, but all will seek to show forth
God's glory by thei'- thoughts, words and deeds ; there
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will no more be a constant striving for money, " the
love of which is the root of all evil ;" but the Chris-
tian graces of faith, hope and charity will so fill the
hearts and souls of all the world, that earth will
become a heaven below, and '^ the angel having the
key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand, will lay hold on the old Serpent, which is the
Devil and Satan, and bind him a thousand years." 20
Revelations, i, 2, 3.
These ten dreadful plagues, having so little effect on
Pharoah's heart, should teach us to examine closely
our own hearts, to see whether our trials and troubles
are making us humble and Christ-like, or whether,
like Pharoah, we are unwilling to allow our sins to
depart from us, but follow them up day by day, till
at last they hurry us into everlasting misery. Think-
ing, like Pharoah, that we are infallible, and wishing
the world to worship us, instead of our trying to teach
the world to worship Christ, by our amiable and gentle
ways. For Christians should now try all in tneir
power to lift the cloud from the tabernacle, which
keeps the Jew from knowing Christ ; and should
themselves try and see the pillar of fire, which is
God's Holy Spirit, guiding, guarding and leading
them to a knowledge of the truth. But, alas ! how
many will only know him too late ! The Holy Spirit
has been striving with man ever since the fall, but we
know that he has said, in Genesis, 6, 3, ** My Spirit
shall not always strive with man." God will not
always strive to see if man will follow the guidance of
the Good Spirit, instead of the Evil, and weigh the
world and its attractions at their real value. Since the
fall of man, God seems to have spoken only five times
to ' man by his Holy Spirit, in a voice that could be
heard by mortal ears, besides those two wonderful
revelations to Moses in the given of the Law. First,
in Genesis, 17, 3, God spoke to Abraham, " I am the
Almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect ;''
and Abraham fell on his face. Twice to Moses ; first,
in Exodus, 3, 6, " I am the God of thy father, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob ; and Moses fell on his face." In Exodus, 33,
20 and following verses, where God tells Moses that
none can see Him and live. In the 13th John, 6th
verse, where Jesus says, " I am He ;" the divine nature
must have spoken, for they went backward and fell to
the ground. Then the 17th Matthew, 5th verse:
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased ;
hear ye Him." Making in all seven times.
Man does not realize the mercy and goodness of
God in sending us a written law and begging and
beseeching us by the gentle pleadings of his Holy
Spirit to accept salvation now, through the Saviour,
so that when He comes as God, in a cloud with great
glory, we may be able to look up to Him and feel that
our redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21, 27.
Before I close this letter, which I ,have already
spun out to a great length, I wish to call your atten-
tion to one fact more, viz. : that in the 7th Exodus,
21, "The Lord said to Moses, Aaron thy brother
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shall be my prophet." Now this Is the first priest of
which there is any mention, for Moses was a law-
giver but not a priest. But in every case the Lord
speaks to Moses first. The Jewish law was so intri-
cate, and so minute, that it was impossible to keep it
perfectly, " and without shedding of blood is no
redemption." Hebrews, 9, 22. How thankful we
should be that the shadow or the cloud has been lifted
oflF our tabernacle, and that the glorious light of the
Gospel shows us Christ, the end of the law for right-
eousness, " For the law maketh men high priests
which have infirmity ; but the word of the oath,which
was since the law, maketh the Son which is conse-
crated for evermore." Was Aaron, the first high
priest, infallible ? No. His pride was his destruction.
When the people murmured for water in the desert of
Zin, Moses and Aaron spoke as if they must fetch
the water themselves, (Numbers 20, 10,) forgetting
to give the glory of the miracle to God, and for this
great sin Aaron was made to mount up to Mount
Hor, to be stripped of his garments and to be gathered
to his fathers ; and, although Moses was allowed to
live a little longer, yet, for this same sin he was not
allowed to enter into the promised land. Deuteronomy
32, 51. Now, allow me to tell your Holiness that,
in calling yourself infallible, you have committed
exactly the same sin that Moses and Aaron did at the
waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin ;
and I beseech you, before you are called to appear
before your Maker, to retract this dogma which I
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hear you have just caused to be passed ; for, If God
punished so heavily those who lived under the law,
(lo Hebrews, 28, 29,) " Of how much sorer punish-
ment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath
counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto
the Spirit of Grace." Ponder these things, and may
God, in his great mercy, bring you to a knowledge of
the sinfulness of all mankind, and the madness of
thinking yourself infallible.
For the present
Allow me to subscribe myself
A Lady Member
of the
Reformed Catholic Church.
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